The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major public health challenge and is having serious economic and social impacts on origin, transit and destination countries, as well as on migrant workers and their families and on businesses and their operations.
This informative note presents policy options in order to ensure comprehensive social protection for migrant workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Recommendations for Policy-makers and Constituents
This supplement to the ILO Policy Brief "Protecting migrant workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic" provides an overview of the current situation of refugee workers within the context of the COVID-19 crisis and offers policy recommendations for protecting their rights at work based on international labour standards and emerging country experiences, with the understanding that the situation is changing rapidly.
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Recommendations for Policy-makers and Constituents
This policy brief provides information and identifies a number of key recommendations to assist governments and other stakeholders in designing COVID-19 policy responses that can help to ensure the protection of migrant workers, as well as to inform responses for the protection of refugees and those displaced working in countries other than their own, differentiated by gender as appropriate and based upon relevant international labour standards, and ILO guidance and good practices. This document will be updated regularly as the situation evolves.
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